Mary Staes
Mary Staes is Digital Content Lead for Very Local. She works with our freelancers and crafts content for our social media platforms and website. Before Very Local, she worked with CBS affiliate WWL-TV as a web producer and weekend assignment editor for about 4 years. She has also handled broadcast coverage for 160 Marine Reserve training facilities while she served as an active duty Marine. As a native New Orleanian, she takes being "very local" to heart. She loves being intertwined with the culture and figuring out how there are less than two degrees of separation between us all, whether we're natives or not.
Weekend Picks: Father’s Day is here!
If dad isn’t big on gifts (or maybe you just forgot to grab one), no worries. There’s lots to do in town to celebrate fathers across the city.
‘New Orleans gives life:’ Backatown Coffee is a modern boost in a historical, but changing, neighborhood
This isn’t your average coffee shop in any sense of the word. The high ceilings, light fixtures, furniture and every inch of the community space has been thought out.
The Cupcake Collection continues a delicious legacy on Magazine Street
On Magazine Street, tucked in a bustling corner is a facet of one of the nation’s top-ranked bakeries.
73 Distilling’s spirits pay homage to New Orleans neighborhoods
In the Iberville, 73 Distillery has rum, vodka, whiskey and bourbon (of course) but with a local twist.
Weekend Picks: June Under the Moon, Creole Tomato Fest, Pride Festival
Creole Tomato Fest, Pride Weekend, and June Under the Moon in City Park are just a few of the things we’ve got for our weekend picks!
New Orleanians: Two Girls One Shuck proves an oyster bar can be a woman’s place
Since 2014, these lovely lady shuckers based out of the Bywater have been convincing folks to swallow their fears and mingle with mollusks.
Leah Chase gave everyone she met something they never had before
Leah Chase gave everyone she met something they never had before.
🎶Hot Fun in the Summertime☀
Yes, the heat index is between OMG and WTF already and we’re all sweating, dying from the blazing, bursting UV rays of the sun.
Weekend Picks: A 24/7 bar, a wild place to catch a Zoovie, strolling down the avenue… Harrison Avenue
Closing time? You can’t close a place down that never closes.
Laid-back laissez faire: a day in the Marigny
We know, usually you go to the Marigny at night, but there’s still plenty to do during the day here.